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Join Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia's leading independent law firm.
An opportunity exists for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Analytics & Reporting team. This is a permanent role which can be based in either Sydney or Melbourne.
You will be joining a high-performing team driving commercial insights and strategic decision-making.
This role will contribute towards the quality of the firm's financial and client reporting across the business. The Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for proactively supporting the Commercial Managers, Analytics & Reporting team, and Executives, by providing timely and high-quality analysis and financial information.
What you\'ll be doing:
* Conduct data mining, reconciliation, and performance reviews
* Build and enhance recurring and ad hoc reports for Commercial and Executive teams
Lead and mentor
* Guide junior analysts to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and analytical excellence
Drive performance improvement
* Provide financial advice to support initiatives around profitability, productivity, and cost management
* Analyze fee earner performance and generate exception reports with actionable recommendations
Collaborate across teams
* Partner with Business Development, Finance, and HR to support ad hoc requests
* Build strong relationships across Business Services while ensuring compliance with firm policies
What we\'re looking for:
* Tertiary qualifications in commerce, business, or related field
* CA, CPA or equivalent (highly desirable)
* Advanced Excel skills; Power Query, Power BI, and VBA macros a plus
* SQL knowledge (highly desirable)
* Strong attention to detail and analytical mindset
* Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement
* Comfortable with ad hoc workflows and tight deadlines
* Team player with the ability to build relationships across all levels
* Experience in a professional services firm (desirable)
About us:
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia's leading independent law firm. We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients' most challenging issues.
Why Corrs?
We pride ourselves on meeting our clients needs in a culture characterised by excellence, commitment, collaboration and respect. Our policies, practices and behaviours foster a safe and inclusive workplace, and we focus on creating opportunities and supporting a diverse workforce.
* Flexible working as standard – we've established flexibility as standard business practice and an option for all our people.
* Bonus leave – an additional week of leave each year (5 weeks annual leave in total).
* Generous parental leave entitlements – we offer up to 26 weeks paid leave and pay superannuation on both paid and unpaid leave (up to 12 months).
* Wellbeing program – we support the wellbeing of our people across areas including resilience, mental health, mindfulness, personal development, physical health and self-care.
* Diversity and Inclusion – this is a key area of focus for the firm. We set meaningful goals to improve diversity and foster an inclusive culture in which all employees feel supported and valued.
* Responsible business approach – we are a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and are committed to promoting and respecting human rights, supporting the Compact's Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We are also a member of AusLSA, which works to promote and increase sustainable practices across the legal sector.
* Learning and development opportunities – including our Australian-first international study scholarship, our national training program and our mentoring program.
To apply click on the "apply" button or contact Shannon Garrett on for a confidential discussion.
For more information, see our website
Seniority level
* Associate
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Finance
Industries
* Legal Services
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